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The Ventura County Wine Trail brings the 7th annual Wine Trail Celebration to Ventura County, June 19th, 2014. The festival will be held at The Collection at Riverpark, Oxnard for the second year - West Ventura County's newest shopping, dining and entertainment destination. The festival will be located on Park View Court, an outdoor tree lined street featuring beautiful artwork by Michael Amescua.

The 2014 San Diego International Wine Competition attracts wine makers from around the world, and celebrated its 31st annual competition. Of the competitors, Herzog Wine Cellars achieved three silver awards and a standard-setting Platinum award that earned them 93 points of a possible hundred.

For many, wine is a nice tasting drink to be enjoyed with dinner. However, there is a whole art not just to the creation of wine but to its enjoyment too, a ritualized taste experience that resembles the Japanese tea ceremony in its reverence and discipline, and committing to this process allows people to enjoy wine on a whole new dimension. For anyone in Ventura Country interested in finding out more about wine tasting, Herzog Wine Cellars are now offering a wine tasting guide that will teach people how to enjoy wine as never before.

This January, the Ventura County Wine Trail’s Local Food & Wine Challenge returns to Ventura County. Teams of local wineries and restaurants will match up to see who can create the best food and wine pairing in Ventura County. The winner of the “Best Food & Wine Pairing” award will be chosen by a blind-tasting panel of judges, and announced during the evening. Attendees will also have a part to play in choosing their favorite food and wine pairing for the “People’s Choice” award. Together, the very best pairings will be selected and awarded the 2014 trophies. This year, the event will be held at the newly remodeled Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Hotel & Resort.

For years, California Welcome Centers – California’s Official State Visitor Centers – have offered valuable information and specialized services for today’s travelers. In a first time ever partnership between one of the 19 centers and California’s growing wine industry, the California Welcome Center of Oxnard has joined with the Ventura County Wine Trail to present visitors with a ‘sneak peak of Ventura County winemaking’ and the local wine industry by offering guests of the center the opportunity to taste local wines in an automated wine tasting area.

Tierra Sur is nestled comfortably within the grounds of the award winning Herzog Wine Cellars and has a record-breaking rating from the ZAGAT guide. What has set them apart as outstanding to so many patrons is their diary of exclusive events that promises tantalising and rare culinary experiences. After last year’s runaway success, Tierra Sur is once again hosting their Scotch Dinner (2013) to bring the warmth of fine whisky to the cold winter nights.

Fine dining is an indulgence that is enjoyed by a great many people to celebrate special occasions or to delight in new culinary experiences. For those in Southern California who enjoy both amazing wine and incredible food, it has long been the consensus that the Tierra Sur restaurant, nestled inside Herzog Wine Cellars, offers some of the best of both. That opinion has now been made fact by the newly published ZAGAT restaurant guide, which has afforded the restaurant the highest rating for a kosher restaurant in its history, and the highest rating in a 40 mile radius.

Wine encourages a kind of enthusiasm for flavor not seen in many, if any other alcoholic drinks, perhaps because it is one of the most popular around the world. Despite the assumption that the best wine is made in France, competitors from Australia and California have been distinguishing themselves in recent years. One of the few to distinguish themselves on a global level is Herzog Wine Cellars, who this year created one of just five white wines in California to be named in the Top 100 World Value Wines by Wine Spectator.

California is known around the world for wine, and well it should be: they create some of the finest wines in the world. And yet, California has even more to offer, and the Tierra Sur restaurant at Herzog Wine Cellars is proving just that by inviting the local Island Brewery to join them in a quest to match every dish on an exclusive menu with an exquisite locally brewed beer.

This January, the Ventura County Wine Trail’s Local Food & Wine Challenge returns to Ventura County. Teams of local wineries and restaurants will match up to see who can create the best food and wine pairing in Ventura County. The winner of the “Best Food & Wine Pairing” award will be chosen by a blind-tasting panel of judges, and announced during the evening. Attendees will also have a part to play in choosing their favorite food and wine pairing for the “People’s Choice” award. Together, the very best pairings will be selected and awarded the 2014 trophies. This year, the event will be held at the newly remodeled Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Hotel & Resort.